SECRET TRIALS
SUSPECTS IN JAPAN
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES
TOKIO, May 30.
It is officially disclosed that 235 persons suspected of Communist activities throughout Japan are at present being tried in camera.
The trials follow the arrest of 400 in May, 1936, and 1100 others in the following months. They include Buddhist priests, students; and members of the Labour and Communist Parties,
LANDING PROHIBITED
NEW ZEALANDER IN SYDNEY
ESCAPE FROM LOCKED CABIN
(Received May 31, 10.40 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
A man who described himself as Frederick Butler, aged 35, A baker, who came from Auckland on the Awatea and who claimed that he had been carried on when saying farewell to a I party on board, was told that he would not be allowed to land in Sydney.
He was locked in a hospital gabin, but escaped by breaking open the door.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 126, 31 May 1938, Page 11
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